"Edward Elgar""...lest we forget..." and all that...
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/content/Remembrance-Sunday-508933.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Sunday
I went once to the service at the cenotaph in London and it was a very grand, stirring occasion. Especially at about 10.43am each time just before the 2 minute silence when they play 'Elgar's Nimrod'...
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/content/Remembrance-Sunday-508933.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Sunday
I went once to the service at the cenotaph in London and it was a very grand, stirring occasion. Especially at about 10.43am each time just before the 2 minute silence when they play 'Elgar's Nimrod'...
Elgar's Nimrod
Excerpt
When you consider the scale of losses in the big wars I think that the really minimum one can do is spare a couple of minutes each year...
...aside from the miltary losses I read recently that on just one of the worst nights of the blitz more than 1,500 civilians died in London!
Total dead in World War 2 alone - over 60 million...of which about 40 million were civilians (36 million civilians on allied side, 4 million on the axis side). I'm more than happy to spare a moment to consider all that...
Excerpt
When you consider the scale of losses in the big wars I think that the really minimum one can do is spare a couple of minutes each year...
...aside from the miltary losses I read recently that on just one of the worst nights of the blitz more than 1,500 civilians died in London!
Total dead in World War 2 alone - over 60 million...of which about 40 million were civilians (36 million civilians on allied side, 4 million on the axis side). I'm more than happy to spare a moment to consider all that...
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